2 : File Manager doesn't open window for floppy

2007-12-25 10:07:00

After posting my 1st summary, I received many replies for vulnerability of vold.

Some of them pointed me to CERT and AUSCERT. I had already been there but they

didn't have any patch info about it. Finally, Casper (casper@holland.sun.com)

sent me the details of patches which I got from sunsolve1.sun.com and installed

on my machine.

His reply :

the vulnerability should have been fixed with Sun patches.

It's bug #1261308, fixed in

2.4/SPARC 101907-14 (this fixed in -13, -14 has new security fix)

2.4/x86 101908-14 (same here)

2.5/SPARC 104015-01

2.5/x86 104016-01

2.5.1/SPARC 104010-01

2.5.1/x86 104011-01

2.5.1/PPC 104012-01

Casper

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The first reply was bull's eye ! I had to check and uncomment few lines in

/etc/rmmount.conf, and restart vold. Floppy window is being popped now !

Thanks to Michael Sullivan(mike@trdlnk.com) (and others whose reply are on my

way).

However, I found following comment in this file :

# Following line commented out to remove vold vulnerability

# action floppy action_filemgr.so

Now I have to figure out the vulnerability part !

....manjeet

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Hello Managers,

I have an ages old question with a slight twist (yes, I have gone thru' FAQ

and Sunmanagers summaries :) ) :

The system in question is Sparc 5 running Solaris 2.5.1. Whenever a DOS floppy

is put in and "Check for floppy" button is pressed, system checks and does

nothing, i.e. it doesn't open another window showing floppy contents. However,

if I type in "/floppy" in "Go To" field, it happily finds the floppy and its

contents. My users keep calling for this problem thinking the drive is bad.

To make the matters worse, one the systems does pop up another window when

floppy is inserted (Sparc LX running Solaris 2.5.1) ; vold is running in

both machines and /etc/vold.conf is same for both machines.

I checked pkginfo on both machines and found they both have following

installed :

SUNWvolg, SUNWvolr, and SUNWvolu

I am running out of ideas. Any hints ?

Summary will follow.

Thanks

....manjeet

(manjeet@eng.es.xerox.com)

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